Day Is Done by Bethany Deschamp

May 10, 2017

if there is one thing that i truly love about the summer months, it is that the light is out for longer amounts of time. i love waking up to the sun and love having long evenings in pretty light. after bedtime, i noticed the sun coming through the dining room window and immediately wanted to document the beauty it created coming through the window and how it played on the table and lights. in this image, the day is done and i loved the tone that was created.

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you will see my settings listed below, but to create a sunburst i raised my f/stop of my lens very high to f/16. this made my shutter speed incredibly slow at 1/5th of a second so…i just didn’t breathe when i took this shot. anything for a photo, right? while i could have raised my ISO higher than 1000, i was noting some grain already and didn’t want to add any additional noise. i was confident that i could pull it off in focus at 1/5, as i have a really steady hand.

i love everything about this image and the story it tells. i love that this image truly depicts what the end of our day looks like at our house. the highchair is cleaned after a messy dinner with a one year old, the table is cleared, the lights are off and the room awaits us for another day tomorrow. because my f/stop was so high, i was even able to capture details outside of the window. usually i like a blown window, but i liked the detail that remained in this image to pinpoint a time of year in the photograph. i love that the green offer the feel of summer, instead of leaving the viewer wondering the time of year. and if you look really closely at the lights, you will notice a second tiny sunburst on the second light to the right. bonus.

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